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Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 18:50:59 -0400
To: David E Euresti <davie AT MIT DOT EDU>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: umount doesn't umount
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At 06:49 PM 5/16/2002, David E Euresti wrote:
>Anybody know why this happens?
>
>$ mount c: /blah:c
>mount: warning - /blah:c does not exist.
>
>$cd /blah:c
>
>$ cd /blah:c
>bash: cd: /blah:c: No such file or directory
>
>$mount
>C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
>C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
>C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
>c: on /blah:c type user (textmode)
>h: on /cygdrive/h type user (binmode,noumount)
>z: on /cygdrive/z type user (binmode,noumount)
>
>$ umount /blah:c
>umount: /blah:c: Invalid argument
>
>
>I think it doesn't like the colon.  Any ideas?



Just the standard one in this situation.  Escape the colon.



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